Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

re: Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

Thomas W Shinder - MSFT — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:41:19 GMT

Hi Thomas -

There is information at technet.microsoft.com/.../hh831441.aspx and also Josh Adams shows you how to put it all together in PowerShell over at blogs.technet.com/.../building-a-windows-server-2012-cloud-infrastructure-with-powershell-by-josh-adams.aspx

HTH,

Tom

re: Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

Thomas — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:13:48 GMT

@Yigal Edery

Thanks a lot for your great articles, they are very useful and because of your help we kicked out vm**** :-)

You made a promise:

Such a configuration would look like this (and we promise a how-to guide very soon. It’s in the works, and you will need some PowerShell to make it work)

Unfortunately, I was ot able to find this guide...

Does it exist?

Thanks a lot in advance, kind regards, Thomas

re: Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

Thomas W Shinder - MSFT — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:04:29 GMT

The team is presented to the OS as a single interface. When you using 802.1q VLAN tagging there are no limits imposed by the team.

re: Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

Thomas_Brawand — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:42:07 GMT

Thomas,

Isn't it the case that each VLAN counts as one Team-Interface? Would that not limit it?

Tom

re: Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

Thomas W Shinder - MSFT — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:37:57 GMT

Thomas,

FWIU, there is a limit of 32 NICs to a single NIC team. I am not aware of any limitations in terms of number of VLANs you can create per team.

Thanks!

Tom

re: Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

Thomas_Brawand — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:44:37 GMT

Could it be that there is a limitation of 32 VLAN's for each Nic-Team?

We are actually building up a Showcase where our architect planned to have 125 VLAN's for the environment and now it looks like they are limited.

re: Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

Yigal Edery [MSFT] — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:54:32 GMT

@William: I am assuming you're asking if you can move to regular 10GbE. The answer is that it depends... If you move to use file servers and SMB, then sure! If you continue to use iSCSI and FC, then the same benefits of a CNA (hardware offloading of the processing) still applies, so it's really a choice you are making on cost/performance.

If you had other reasons to use CNAs, then you can submit a followup question and I'll be happy to answer.

re: Cloud Datacenter Network Architecture in the Windows Server “8” era

William — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:33:12 GMT

We currently use 10GB CNA adapters to run IP, iSCSI, and FCoE over a single wire to a converged network switch. So, are you saying that Windows 8 could accomplish the same thing while using a standard Ethernet switch? If so, we'd be interested, as that should translate into quite a bit of cost-savings.